Drama

• A Touch of Love | Blu Ray | (30/08/2021) from £8.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Oscar-winning actor Sandy Dennis gives an acclaimed performance alongside Ian McKellen in this thoughtful 1960s drama about the complications arising from a young woman's sexual awakening. Written by Margaret Drabble from her own novel The Millstone, A Touch of Love is featured here as a brand-new High Definition remaster from original film elements in its original theatrical aspect ratio. Rosamund, a determined but unworldly student, accidentally becomes pregnant during a casual encounter. As the reality of her situation hits home, Rosamund seems locked into one of two unappealing options until she decides that there's a third way.

• The Nightcomers | Blu Ray | (02/03/2015) from £10.98   |  Saving you £6.00 (66.74%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Marlon Brando's intense performance dominates this atmospheric sexually charged feature from a golden age of British horror directed by Michael Winner and also starring Stephanie Beacham in her first major film role. Visually stunning in a High Definition transfer from the original film elements The Nightcomers sketches a prequel to Henry James' classic Gothic novella The Turn of the Screw with Brando in typically compelling form as the servant whose disturbing magnetic presence exerts a corrupting hold over the occupants of a country estate. Following the death of their parents Flora and Miles are left in the care of repressed governess Miss Jessel and housekeeper Mrs Grose. But it is Peter Quint the malevolent Irish servant who truly rules the household; Miss Jessel equally repulsed and fascinated by Quint is drawn into a secret sado-masochistic affair with him while Flora and Miles are increasingly in his thrall... Special Features: Original Theatrical Trailer Original Teaser Trailer Image Gallery Promotional Material PDF

• Strumpet | DVD | (15/05/2006) from £22.33   |  Saving you £-6.34 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Strayman (Ecclestone) is a spontaneous poet landlord to a pack of stray dogs. Unable to resist another of life's strays he hooks up with Strumpet (Genna G) a shy homeless girl with an extraordinary gift for music. After Strayman's neighbour overhears them singing the three set off for London - dogs in tow - in search of fame fortune and Top Of The Pops... This compulsive experimental film shot entirely on DV by Danny Boyle is heartwarming moving and visually startling.

• PUMPKIN EATER THE | DVD | (06/09/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Anne Bancroft gives one of the finest performances of her career as a deeply troubled and tormented wife in this powerful 1964 British drama directed by Jack Clayton (Room At The Top) and scripted by Harold Pinter. Tortured by thoughts that her husband Jake (Peter Finch) may be having an affair, Jo Armitage (Anne Bancroft) has a nervous breakdown in Harrods and her life begins to crumble all about her. But is her husband's infidelity really to blame? Why does she have so many children - and is her seemingly perfect life al it appears on the surface?

• Victoria | Blu Ray | (23/05/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Exhilarating and astonishingly ambitious, Victoria is an adrenaline-fuelled heist thriller set on the streets of nighttime Berlin that features the staggering technical feat of being shot in a single, unbroken take.

• Flowers In The Attic | DVD | (21/02/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A family's desire to survive following the tragic death of the father drives the mother to take her four children to a new home where a bizarre and disturbing future awaits them... Based on V.C. Andrews bestseller 'Flowers In The Attic' is a shocking tale of greed depravation incest and cruelty.

• Diary Of A Mad Black Woman | DVD | (23/08/2010) from £6.85   |  Saving you £10.14 (148.03%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Perry's first film is a classic tale of a woman scorned with a notable twist. Helen McCarter (Kimberly Elise) is the wronged wife summarily dumped by her attorney husband Charles (Steve Harris) after 18 years of marriage. Literally booted out of her Atlanta mansion Helen goes to live with her grandmother Madea (Tyler Perry) and begins the difficult process of rebuilding her life. Just as Helen has achieved a new sense of self-confidence through steady employment and new romance Charles suddenly reappears in her life in dire need of her help. For Helen it is a chance for revenge -- but also a chance for redemption through forgiveness.

• I Clowns (The Clowns) | Blu Ray | (27/10/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  One of the Fellini films which has been out of circulation for many years I clowns [The Clowns] has long been revered by Fellini enthusiasts for the several decades since its release as among the Maestro's finest works — a thrilling spectacle once seen for the first time — and a picture which after multiple viewings easily takes its place alongside such classics as La strada Le notti di Cabiria La dolce vita Satyricon Amarcord... but in a register all its own. I clowns plays out in dazzling colour and in episodic cascade just as in all of Fellini's late-60s-and-beyond films. As the circus rolls into town and the big-tent gets erected the clowns execute their acts with feverish can-you-believe-it bravado. It's all true — and yet not a documentary per se; rather something in-between a dramatic-comedic portrayal of gags-at-play and the memoria of all that makes the spark for childhood inspiration to ignite into creative virtuosity... and/or into something like Federico Fellini. A great and under acknowledged treasure of the cinema I clowns takes its place alongside such films as Bergman's Carnies' Twilight Ophuls's Lola Montès Étaix's Yoyo Jerry Lewis's The Day the Clown Cried and Tati's Parade as one of the grand portraits of the clowning circus of a bygone era of the wandering entertainer. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present Federico Fellini's I clowns in a special Dual Format (Blu-ray + DVD) edition for the first time in the UK. Bonus Features: New high-definition 1080p presentation of feature on the Blu-ray and in a progressive encode on the DVD New and improved English subtitles Fellini's Circus — an essay-film about the picture by the great Italian critic and scholar Adriano Aprà A 36-PAGE BOOKLET featuring new writing about the film rare archival imagery and more!

• Colette | Blu Ray | (13/05/2019) from £5.25   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Unconventional country girl Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette has married a charismatic egomaniacal man of letters, 14 years her senior, known by the single name, Willy. Through his auspices, Colette is introduced into the fecund world of the artistic demimonde in Paris where her creative appetite is sparked. Ever quick to capitalise on talent, Willy permits Colette to write her novels only if she does so in his name. The phenomenal success of her Claudine series makes Willy a famous writer and Colette and Willy the first modern celebrity couple. Although they are the toast of the town, lack of recognition for her work begins to gnaw on Colette. Their marriage starts to internally combust, fuelled by Willy's infidelities and Colette's growing interest in women - particularly her relationship with the gender-defying Missy - but emotionally and artistically, she cannot break free of him. On a downward slide, Willy resorts to increasingly desperate measures to pay his debts and sabotage his wife but Colette is developing resources of her own. Set at the dawn of the modern age, COLETTE is the story of a woman who has been denied her voice by an overbearing man, and who goes to extraordinary lengths to find it; a battle of the sexes at the very beginning of the modern age, when seismic shifts were taking place in the roles of men and women. More than a century after the publication of her first novel, Colette is still one of the best-selling, and beloved, French authors. Unfortunately, because Willy convinced her to ghostwrite for him, she doesn't get any of the credit for the phenomenon that her novel becomes. And in the years to come, while her and Willy's adventures become the talk of Paris, she defies everyone to get her name on the books she writes. Keira Knightley stars as ˜Colette' in this acclaimed drama, alongside Dominic West as Willy.

• The Border (Blu-Ray) | Blu Ray | (22/01/2018) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Jack Nicholson (The Last Detail, Wolf) gives one of his finest and most subtle performances as a hard-working but deeply disillusioned Mexican border-guard in this tough thriller from renowned British filmmaker Tony Richardson (Look Back in Anger, A Taste of Honey).

• Sous Le Soleil De Satan | DVD | (22/03/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Positioned somewhere between Bresson's immortal Journal d'un cur'' de campagne and Dieterle's The Devil and Daniel Webster Maurice Pialat's staggering Sous le soleil de Satan [Under the Sun of Satan] addresses the torrent of spiritual and intellectual turmoil unloosed among the denizens of a little country parish. It is a film by turns calm and violent buoyant upon the tears of mercy and gurgling with the blood of the Lamb. G''rard Depardieu (Loulou Le Gar''u) is the self-abasing curate tortured by questions about his role in God's plan - before an encounter with a material Satan touches off a powerful revelation. At the crux of his vision is Sandrine Bonnaire (A nos amours. Police) the madly profligate brewer's daughter whose fate ruptures in a blast of gunpowder and the slash of a razor. As events unfurl Maurice Pialat himself provides witness as the seasoned cleric who pronounces the words: God wears us down. One of the great films of faith made by a non-believer Sous le soleil de Satan left an indelible mark on spectators from the very moment of its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in 1987 - where it won the Palme d'Or for Best Film.

• Jonathan Livingston Seagull | DVD | (13/11/2006) from £16.65   |  Saving you £-6.66 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Jonathan is sick and tired of the boring life in his sea-gull clan. He rather experiments with new always more daring flying techniques. Since he doesn't fit in the elders expel him from the clan. So he sets out to discover the world beyond the horizon in quest for wisdom.

• Wild At Heart | DVD | (03/04/2006) from £11.50   |  Saving you £8.49 (73.83%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Starring Stephen Tomkinson (Ballykissangel) and Amanda Holden (Cutting It) Wild At Heart is the story of an English vet and his extended family who move to the South African bush to set up and run a game reserve. The Trevanion family has had more than its fair share of problems. When suburban vet Danny brings home a monkey which has been smuggled illegally into the country the family decides to return the animal to its natural habitat - hoping that the journey will help the

• Remember | DVD | (30/10/2006) from £12.08   |  Saving you £-6.09 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

• Ballykissangel - Season 1 | DVD | (15/08/2005) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Young priest Father Peter Clifford (Stephen Tompkinson) arrives in the small Irish town of Ballykissangel. Captivated by local beauty Assumpta (Dervla Kirwan) he is unpopular form the outset and has to work hard to win over the eccentric inhabitants... Episodes comprise: 1. Trying To Connect You 2. The Things We Do For Love 3. Live In My Heart And Pay No Rent 4. Fallen Angel 5. The Power And The Gory 6. Missing You Already

• Killer Net | DVD | (04/04/2005) from £7.48   |  Saving you £-1.49 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  When murder becomes a virtual reality... The stylish Channel 4 tale of urban murder features Paul Bettany in his first leading role. Two Brighton-based students buy an internet murder game and are amazed by its realistic qualities. They perform the perfect cyber murder but soon the boundaries between fantasy and reality become blurred when a real copycat killing takes place. Leaving the game it seems can be murder... Written by BAFTA award winner Lynda La Plante.

• The Servant (Vintage Classics) | Blu Ray | (10/01/2022) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A stunning new 4K restoration of Joseph Loseys 1963 masterpiece The Servant. Adapted from Robin Maugham's short story, The Servant marked the first of three collaborations between Joseph Losey and celebrated playwright Harold Pinter. Nominated for five BAFTA 's and winning three, including best actor for Dirk Bogarde and Best Cinematography for Douglas Slocombe, The Servant is notable for its ambitious technique and its willingness to engage with issues that were, at the time, never seen in British cinema. Experienced manservant Barrett (Dirk Bogarde) starts working for foppish aristocrat Tony (James Fox) in his smart new townhouse. Much to the annoyance of Tony's girlfriend (Wendy Craig), Barrett slowly initiates himself into the house and begins to manipulate his master. Extras NEW: Locations featurette with Adam Scovell NEW: Video essay with Film Historian Matthew Sweet and Film Critic Phuong Le Trailer Stills Gallery Interview with Wendy Craig Interview with Sarah Miles Interview with Stephen Woolley Harry Burton on Harold Pinter John Coldstream on Dirk Bogarde Audio Interview with Douglas Slocombe conducted by Matthew Sweet Joseph Losey & Adolphus Mekas at the New York Film Festival in 1963 Harold Pinter Tempo Interview Joseph Losey Talks About The Servant James Fox Interviewed by Richard Ayoade

• Cheeky | DVD | (21/01/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Carla is an attractive, carefree young woman from Venice who comes to London to find a place for her lover Matteo and herself to live. At an estate agency the proprietress, Moira, makes some explicit sexual overtures to Carla which she finds intriguing. Deciding not to relate these to Matteo she instead starts telling him lies. He becomes very jealous as he imagines Carla's erotic adventures and abandons his trip to London. Carla, upset by his rebuff, goes to a party where she takes part, along with other beautiful girls, in a pleasure-pain endurance test - Trojan Ordeal! Eventually Matteo does come to London and when he confronts Carla, her revelations not only make him madly jealous, but also arouse him sexually. So he tells Carla Swear Carla, that you'll always lie to me!

• Footballers' Wives - The Complete Season 1 | DVD | (27/01/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Footballers' Wives plays rather like a dramatisation of the worst bits of Heat magazine, fuelling our obsession with worshipping at the celebrity altar. In essence it's Dynasty set in the world of premiership football, though you shouldn't be fooled by the title: this is definitely not a "game of two halves". For the first time in history, men may leave the room at the mention of football to let the women gorge themselves on a surfeit of bad fashion, affairs, drug habits, long-lost children and the gratuitous disposal of excessive wealth. There are more than a few recognisable characters--the foreign manager, the glamour-model wife, the smouldering Italian mid-fielder--whose presence only adds to the (intended) impression that this just might be fact thinly disguised as fiction (though it's unlikely that any real footballer's wife would almost kill the chairman of the club in a fit of rage, as Tanya does in the first episode). Unsurprisingly Footballers' Wives was created by the same team that produced the trash-fest that was Bad Girls and despite never being a contender for best drama it offers a perfect opportunity to become a voyeur in a world with more glitz and leg action than most. On the DVD: Footballers' Wives is presented with an ordinary TV transfer. The special features are nothing to get excited about, just standard interviews and photo galleries. --Nikki Disney

• Anyone for Denis? | DVD | (03/09/2018) from £12.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Written by actor, best-selling author and noted satirist John Wells and based on his and Richard Ingrams' hilarious Dear Bill letters for Private Eye Anyone for Denis? was a major West End hit in the early 1980s and remains an unequivocally high watermark of British farce. Starring Wells himself as the much-put-upon Denis and Angela Thorne in an arguably career-best performance as The Iron Lady, a remarkable supporting cast includes Robert Stephens, Joan Sanderson, Alfred Molina, Roy Kinnear, Nicky Henson and John Cater. This television adaptation for Thames Television one of the hits of the ITV network's 1982 Christmas season was directed award-winning writer/director (and comedy legend in his own right) Dick Clement. While Maggie is away at a Euro-Conference, Denis invites two of his drinking chums for a weekend of mischief at Chequers. Things start to go seriously wrong, however, when she returns unexpectedly and mistakes her husband's friends for EEC Commissioners!